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eedback ti-nuke e Editor: ^Trojan Decommissioning ote announces its plan of violently bar'ra leading the en- to the plant. The Alli- reached a consensus to mil disobedience on Aug- 5( the anniversary of the pg of the atomic bomb on lima, Japan. It Alliance feels that the in ti of governmental agencies, officials and courts in failing to put an end to the danger leaves them no other choice. So far, over 200 protesters have been arrested for trespas sing at Trojan on two separate occasions. In the first mass trial, all 96 defendants were ac quitted by a Columbia County jury. During both occasions, the Trojan Decommissioning Alli ance maintained a non-violent stand. Non-violent training work shops will be set up and will be mandatory for all participants in the August 6 protest. The mem bers of the Alliance explained their opposition to violence causes concerned Oregonians to occupy the Trojan plant as an all-out effort to shut Trojan down. The Alliance feels, in view of the fact that the Trojan plant produces 40 tons of nuclear waste a year and that nuclear waste remains highly dangerous for 250,000 years, that Trojan should be shut down. Jeff Bolarsen Trojan Decommissioning Alliance Weather report In McCaffrey je Print HI Governor Rhoades you them and buried them why jthey stay dead? many people who were so y affected by the terrible ¿s inflicted by the Viet- war tragedy. May 4, will be jibered as a particularly wful day in history. mt years ago on this date Republican Governor James Ides sent national guard ’¡onto the campus of Kent University to quiet student ¡st against the recently re illegal Cambodia bomb- [This action of the Govern- p to the fatal shooting of [students by the National jsmen. The Guardsmen ¡tried for the killings and led of any wrong doing, governor while admitting «fulness of the tragedy has jtently defended his actions tintense public criticism, fently being Governor in ¡means never having to say sorry, [May 4, one year ago, a of 200 students had to their way into the trust eeing at the conclusion of hears commemoration pro- 1 The students arrived in to hear the University's lees announce their final ion to erect a gym on the bfthe student killings. The pts protested by setting up city on the site. The high- rge’datmosphere of the en- ent lasted 62 days, the t occupation in the hist- f the American student pent. The encampment able to stay while a long battle was being waged but ily 12 sheriff's deputies 1194 arrests of non-violent terson "Blanket Hill". Way 4 we might do well ^template the half com shell of a gymnasium and find an appropriate ephi- » mark this place of the youth while reflecting on and taken cherished sym- four own lives. more plutonium than they used up. Silkwood liked her job but had begun to develop doubts about it because of frequent employee complaints of expo sure to airborne plutonium. This is no small matter when you consider that one-millionth of a gram of this highly toxic sub stance has caused cancer in test animals. Once this plutonium gets into the air it cannot be re covered. By fall of 1974 the Kerr-Mcgee Company had 'been forced to tell the Atomic Energy Commission of 73 accidental contaminations at the plant, workers complained of dozens more. Karen Silkwood became a union activist. One week before her death, Karen was involved in the invest igation of the plant for her union, the Oil, Chemical, and Atomic Workers International. She was trying to gather enough internal company memo's to prove that Kerr-Mcgee was falsi fying records and violating AEC safety guidelines. During that week Silkwood discovered that she had eaten three Bologna and cheese sandwiches which had been poisoned with a microscop ic amount of plutonium. The AEC later decided that this poisoning was no accident. Scar ed out of her mind, Silkwood arranged a meeting with a OCAW union health expert and a re porter from the New York Say man you want to buy some paraquat gold? Paraquat is an exceedingly toxic herbicide used by the Mexican government in cooper ation with the United States agencies to eliminate heroine producing poppy fields. program has also been extended to cover marijuana fields. Less than a month ago the Environ mental Protection Agency re stricted the use of paraquat in the United States, Some feel that the chemical will soon be banned for use in this country, Paraquat remains in i the body longer than DDT and has no antidote. Presently the EPA allows paraquat levels of .05 parts per million in our food stuffs. Samples of confiscated marijuana samples last November found levels ranging from 177 -2200 parts per million. Para quat is a fail safe suicide system! This poison is a quick way to ensure illness and possible death. Yet it is estimated that about 14 tons of paraquat contaminated marijuana will be eaten in the United States this year. Although the studies are not conclusive they seem to show that smoking of paraquat will quickly bring about lung damage. How much paraquat contami nated herb is in the United State is not known, although in Oregon the problem has been extremely low. The scare is not over however. The Mexican government will continue to use U.S. planes and chemicals and technical assistance to contami nate peasant fields. Also mari juana dealers in the United States, since the paraquat scare has made the bottom fall out of the Mexican pot market, are said to be hoarding large quanti ties of Mexican pot for distribu tion in the late summer when the scare has died down. In the meantime one should be very cautious of any weed they buy. Even the White House office of drug-abuse policy has admit ted that paraquat-treated mari juana, once manicured is very difficult to recognize. HEARD’S COPY SHOP 908 MAIN STREET OREGON CITY, OREGON Phone: (503) 655-9227 The Xerox 9200 Duplicating System □ Quick Job Turnaround □ Exceptional Copy Quality □ Automatic Sorting and Collating □ Three Reduction Sizes For Special Duplicating Needs It all adds up to better, faster printing services—by us, for you! Opportunities for women who aren’t afraid of responsibility We want ambitious women who'd like equal car eer opportunities in hundreds of challenging fields. 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On her way to the meet ing her light weight car slammed into a concrete culvert and Karen was killed. No manila folder was found in the car. Disappeared. Law enforcement officials looking in to the case ruled Karen's acci dent routine despite evidence that her car had been forced off the road. The FBI and two subcommittees congressional have dropped investigations into the Silkwood Case because they consider it an unsolvable riddle. The questions Karen's death raises about the Kerr-Mcgee Company are also the questions being asked about the nuclear industry. How safe are they? Can the power companies and plutonium manufacturers be trusted to keep high safety stan dards? How easily available is plutonium? How much is get ting into our environment? It is becoming more obvious that the nuclear energy people do not want examined to closely. Colors by Munsell Color Services Lab